An application I'm writing will have some password change functionality. However I'm wondering if it is possible to not run the account management part of it as root.
Right now I'm running into the ...

I try to use the hwclock but I get this output:
[arkadi@arkadi-linux /home/arkadi $]hwclock
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
hwclock: Use the --debug option to see the ...

I am attempting to install a python module called lxml to my account on a supercomputer running RHEL.
I do NOT have root access or super user status.
lxml requires the dev/devel versions of libxml2 ...

I am trying to user an alternate user (non-admin) to execute graphical software on my system. This alternate user has been named and given a UID and GID to match a remote system user of the same name. ...

I have installed ircd-hybrid on my new CentOS 7 box, and I can run it fine via my normal user, but I want to run it as its own user with reduced permissions (ie, no write access outside /etc/ircd). ...

Is it possible to allow some particular users (e.g. members of a group) to mount any filesystem without superuser privileges on Linux?
(Another question might have been "in what ways a user can harm ...

Recently, I want to run a script(PWgui) which requires Tcl (Itk). The manual suggests that I have to install iwidgets4 beforehand. I am using the university cluster and don't have any root privileges. ...

I'm trying to run CentOS6 in "User Mode Linux" - i.e., virtualization without root privileges. It can be either 32 bits or 64 bits - whatever works right. The UML kernel is distributed seperately from ...

I need to convert doc file to docx. I need to achieve this using command line on the web-server. unoconv seems to be most usefull here. But it isn't installed on a web-server and:
Web-server doesn't ...

I have created a user in my Centos VPS. But with the new user I can not create, modify files in any folder (for example /var/www/ or /etc/nginx/conf.d/), even though I have added the new user to the ...

I need to allow users in the dba group to control the database@ services. The answer to this related question is to just list all systemctl "verbs" that I want to allow in the sudoers file, however, ...

I have one build machine which has a user abc which is has limited sudo access. When I check out the source code and run my build script, it works fine. The build script contains sudo calls for which ...

I need to retrieve the manufacturer model of a linux device (laptop or desktop). I saw that you could use dmidecode | grep -A3 '^System Information' but it needs admin rights. There is any way to do ...

Our computation cluster runs a very old version of CentOS, with an old Kernel (2.6.18) and, of course, old libs and binaries. Because updating the whole thing requires a lot of work on all the nodes, ...

Is there any way to unlock LUKS partition using keyfile while not having root priviliges? (using sudo is not an option)
I know that udisksctl can open LUKS partition, however it can do it only with a ...

I made this bash function to detect if the user running is actually logged in as root user and not using sudo by checking the uid + home directory of the user executing the command:
#!/bin/bash
set ...

OpenSSH has a feature that allows you to multiplex connections over a controlsocket. It is generally accepted that these control sockets should not reside in a common area, due to the security issues ...

I want to mount a password-protected SMB share (served by a Windows machine). The share is protected by a user name and password, and I may not write the password in a file, I want to be prompted for ...

I am using Arch Linux, I want to add a start-up program in Arch Linux.
How to add start-up program which will execute after login after every boot ?
Note: I am not system administrator, I am just a ...

Assume I have ssh access to some Ubuntu server as user and I need some not system tools to be installed for convenience (mc, rtorrent, mcedit). I do not want to bother admins for these small programs. ...

Is there a way to change or set the default per-user pulseaudio output device without having write access to the system configuration (but of course having write access to the user configuration in ...